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| Picture Frame Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Picture Frame Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Side of frame resemble logs with leaves in each corner. Frame nailed together. Gilt edge. Glass in frame. Wood backing. The original nails hold wood in place. Picture hanger made of red cord. Cord tied in loop at top, very worn at loop. Photo # 997-933-1103 removed from frame. | ||||
| Dinner Set Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Dinner Set Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Set of white china with gold handle, gold band, green stripe and gold initial “W”. Plates marked on the back, CMW 1873” (Carrie Wiggins). Also marked, “Haviland, France, Haviland and Co;, Limoges. Two of each, includes plate, saucer and cup. | ||||
| Satchel Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Satchel Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Pig hide, worn at edges. Three large stains on bottom (ink or water). Four metal nobs on bottom of bag. Handle worn - leather sewn over cord which is wrapped with stiff paper. Handle attaches to metal ‘D’ rings and then to metal plate on top of bag. Spring latch with metal ring to pull bag open. Metal edge attached to leather at opening. Two catches close over metal binding. Inside lining torn in several places. One pocket inside. Satchel owned by Mr. Henry Clark owner of Clark and Parker General Store at present site of Oceanarium in Southwest Harbor. [show more] | ||||
| Pre-stamped envelope sent from Salsbury Cove, c.1875 Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Pre-stamped envelope sent from Salsbury Cove, c.1875 Tremont Historical Society Description: Pre-stamped envelope sent from Salsbury Cove, c.1875 | |||
| Stamped folded letter sent from Eden post office, 1870 Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Stamped folded letter sent from Eden post office, 1870 Tremont Historical Society Description: Stamped folded letter sent from Eden post office, 1870 | |||
| Receipt for Preble's taxes paid in full Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Receipt for Preble's taxes paid in full Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Receipt: William P. Preble paid in full $31.22 for state, county, town, and highway taxes for 1873; William H. Preble paid $3.76 for same. Dated 5 Jan 1874; signed William P. Bunker, Collector. Transcribed. | ||
| Payments made for service to Town of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Payments made for service to Town of Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Nine documents. Eight Town of Cranberry Isles payment receipts (1876-1877), one 1885 Town of CI Schools ledger page, and one 1887 Town of Tremont receipt. Payments involve individuals including: Hadlock, Gilley, Preble, Stanley, Wayland, Hamor, Fernald, schools. See description of each document. | ||
| Nautical Almanac 1876 for schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nautical Almanac 1876 for schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Journal. Nautical Almanac 1876 containing tables of sun's declination and equation of time and tide by D. Eggert's sons, 23 pages, annotated by Carrie M. Richardson aboard the schooner Carrie M. Richardson. Recording the sun sightings for navigating voyages using dead reckoning; transatlantic journeys are plotted on nautical chart 1 and possibly others of 2015.315.2076. .) From the Lewis Stanley descendants collection. (See also 2015.316.2077 and 2017.388.2163 Initial review of the annotated Nautical Almanac of 1876 indicates that it records the Carrie M. Richardson's journey east from New York starting June 23, 1876; arriving Seville July 22, and departing Seville August 3. She arrived at Cadiz August 5 and left for Boston August 12. A wonderful addition as Nautical Chart 1 (2017.315.2076) only plots the west to east legs of two 1877 and 1878 Spain-to-Cranberry Isles voyages. Decipher the chronometer dead reckoning entries in this Almanac should enableus to plot the route she sailed to reach Spain. (Scanned July 2017) [show more] | ||
| Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Ten Town of Cranberry Isles documents 1876-1877, with summary of each item. Includes receipts for tax assessors; Perley and Russell v. Bunker; Gilley; Schooner Wayland; Leonard Holmes; and mention of a ship attacking a vessel, among other things. | ||
| Telegram Benj Spurling to Perley Russell Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Telegram Benj Spurling to Perley Russell Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Telegram, from Benj. Spurling, Somesville, Maine ?Apr 4? 1877, to Perley Russell, Portland Me, "Send by boat to SW Harbor Friday three lbs each no eighteen twelve and six and four of nine seine twine" (found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001) | ||
| Shoemaker's hammer patent Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Shoemaker's hammer patent Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 2 sheets, Patent, #199,568, "Lasting-Hammer", 1878. Mickey Macfarlan wrote on it "A shoemaker's hammer found in Capt. Bert's house" (See hammer item 2002.20.1241) (See also items 1240-1245.) | ||
| Telegram, blank, for use in the 1870s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Telegram, blank, for use in the 1870s Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Telegram, blank, for use in the 1870s, dated 187_ (found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001) | ||
| Sale of real estate to John E. Bunker 1874 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sale of real estate to John E. Bunker 1874 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 1 sheet, legal contract dated 27 Mar 1874, by Joseph Perley and John Russell, partners in "Perley & Russell", to sell "certain real estate" on Cranberry Island to John E. Bunker for $525, payable in two notes of $262.50 each, at 7.5% interest, one payable in 1 year, the other in 2 years. The land was previously sold to Perley & Russell by Bunker himself. Transcribed. | ||
| School Agent's Census Return 1878 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  School Agent's Census Return 1878 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 1 sheet, 2 sides, "School Agent's Census Return, 1878" for Cranberry Isles District 4, filled out by William A Rice, witnessed by William P Preble, 19 students' names and ages listed: Loring E Rice, 16; Carrie E Rice, 18; Sophia A Rice, 13; Herbert A Rice, 9; Seth H Rice, 6; Walter L Fernald, 20; R H B Fernald, 18; A C Fernald, Jr, 17; Cora M Fernald, 8; Gilbert A Rice, 7; Cora A Richardson, 9; Eugene P Stanley, 19; Hettie M Gilley, 18; Laura A Gilley, 15; Mary E Gilley, 11; John Pung, 19; Sarah P Smallidge, 8; Ida K Smallidge, 7; Augusta A Smallidge, 4. Transcribed. [show more] | ||
| Fourteen Weeks in Physics Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Fourteen Weeks in Physics Tremont Historical Society Description: Text book, property of Town of Tremont | ||
| The Illustrated History of Methodism in Great Britain and America. Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| The Illustrated History of Methodism in Great Britain and America. Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Illustrated with over 250 engravings, maps and charts. Stated in front: "Presented to Mount Desert Island Museum by Mrs. Abbie Thomas Richardson." | ||
| Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: "Embracing new hymns and music by the late P.P. Bliss" Inscribed Emma A.Whitmore, NorthEast Harbor, Me. | |||
| Mayhew's Practical Book-Keeping Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Mayhew's Practical Book-Keeping Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: School book marked "Ernest R. Kittredge, Somesville High School, September 10, 1874. | ||
| Portrait of Abraham Lincoln with Flower Arrangment Stereograph, 1874 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Portrait of Abraham Lincoln with Flower Arrangment Stereograph, 1874 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Photograph of a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln surrounded by a flower arrangement. People Depicted: Abraham Lincoln Black and white | ||
| George Gibson McMurtry Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  George Gibson McMurtry Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: George Gibson McMurtry (November 6, 1876 – November 22, 1958) was a United States Army officer, a Medal of Honor recipient and a Harvard Law-educated Wall Street lawyer. He first served in the Army as a member of the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War. He received the Medal of Honor as the executive officer of the Lost Battalion during World War I. December 16, 1903, he married Mabel C. Post on Long Island. He was a member of Bar Harbor Club, Pot & Kettle Club. Tombstone in Ledgelawn Cemetery. [show more] | |||
| Coast chart No.105 from Penobscot bay to Kennebec Entrance Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Coast chart No.105 from Penobscot bay to Kennebec Entrance Jesup Memorial Library Description: Sounding Map First publication 1873, corrected July 30 1897 | |||
| Coast Chart No. 108 From Wells to Cape Ann Jesup Memorial Library |
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| Coast Chart No. 108 From Wells to Cape Ann Jesup Memorial Library | ||||
| Ledger sheets Capt. Charles E. Bunker, Schooner Como, 1879 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ledger sheets Capt. Charles E. Bunker, Schooner Como, 1879 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: This group of five ledger sheets tally Charles E. Bunker’s debits and credits for voyage on Schooner “Como” with cargo "cocoanuts, mahogany, and cedars in account with Odio & Perozo of New York". Loose ledger pages are dated February 6-21, 1879. There are 34,505 cocoanuts; 4 logs mahogany; 4 logs cedar; and 8 logs cedar. No ports or destinations discernible. Documents are signed in New York. (Only Page A transcribed.) The Schooner Como was built in Cherryfield 1873; No.125172; 133 tons. Charles E Bunker was master 1877. These ledgers are part of collection of Clara Rice items (Clara Adeline Richardson Bunker Rice (1847-1923). (Charles Bunker was Clara's second husband of three. Clara Rice was postmistress on Sutton Island in the Cranberry Isles. She may have married a Fernald, then Charles Edward Bunker, and then wed Wilbert Augustus Rice in 1893. ) [show more] | ||
| Letter from William H. Preble to his father Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter from William H. Preble to his father Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter is from William H. Preble to his father William P. Preble, written in Portland, about his mother (Abigail Preble) ill-health, herring, and brother Andrew. Transcribed. | ||
| School expenses 1876-1877 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  School expenses 1876-1877 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Town of Cranberry Isles school payments made to teachers and other school expenses 1876-1877, with teachers names and school agent names, 27 total. |